The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1887-12-24
BADGER NOTES.

DURING the past season the saw
| mills at La Crosse and Onalaska cut
120,6l7,I71 feet of lumber, 81, 49,
$50 shingles, %, ,575 900 lath and a9,-
500 pickets.
JAMES CLARK goes to the penitentia-
ry for eighteen months, at Eau Claire
for breaking into the Chicago, Mil
waukes & st. Paul depot at that
place.
JUDGMENT for SSO3.S5 has been en-
tered at Ashland against the Monarch
Mining Company.
ORDERS have been issued for the
closing of the only variety theater re-
naming in Ashland.
THE Rood & Maxwell mill at Wash
burn was sold on chattel mortgage
held by the Northern National Bank,
OF Ashland, for 1000. The pur-
chasers are 8. G. Cook, OF Minneapo-
lie; F. Boutine, OF Bayfield,, and c. j.
Grigge, OF st. Paul.
JUDGMENT has been rendered at
Ashland against Patrick Day, an Ash
land builder, for SS, ,514.32.
JOHN POLLOCK, proprietor OF the
Chinese Bazaar ct Ashlan !, has failed.
Assets, 81 900; liabilities unknown.
THE new insane asylum, built by
La Crosse County, will be completed
January j.
EAU CLAIRE business men were SWIM
died by an advertising show-card
scheme.
The Madison City Railway Company
hes been organized under the name OF
the Madison Street Railway Com
pspy.
f. WEYERHAUsER and w. Z. Nc
Cord have bought OF Thomas McDer-
mott, OF Eau Claire, 5000, 600 ieet OF
standing pine on the Red Cedar waters,
for $40, 900.
An unfortunate accident happened
to man at Sand Creek, Eau Claire
County, while he was assistinga neigh
Dor slaughter a steer. The animal
was lying on the ground, and the
farmer with uplifted knife, was about
to plunge the long blade into vital
part when the animal, with toss OF
the head, struck the farmers hand
and the keen blade penetrated the
chest of his companion, inillctlngin all
probability q fatal wound.
CHARLES GRACE, piano player IN a
disreputable house at Dogwood, Ash
land County, was fatally shot by
Alice Hoffenback, keeper OF the place.
The shooting occurred IN a quarrel
over an inmate OF the house.
WHILE driving delivery team Am
brosa Samentink, proprietor OF d
bakery establishment, at Eau Claire,
Fn+ol 1U haInD
thrown from the wagon. His skull
was fractured.
THE East Fork Improvement Com
pany held its annual meeting at La
| Crosse on the 18th. President, John
Paul; secretary and treasurer, +. A.
Copeland; directors, John Paul, n.
Lille, n. B. Holway, Frank Pooler, Ii.
| Goddard. The affairs OF the company
were reported in satisfactory Condi-
ton. No new work was ordered for
the coming year. A dividend OF II
per cent. was declared.
A New YORKER named Leavenworth
| left $500 and full course at either
Harvard or Yale colleges for each OF
| five BOYS named in his honor. One OF
| the fortunate young men is Master
| William Leavenworth Lohmiller, the
| 14-year-old son OF Mr.. William Lob
miller, agent OF the Chicago & North
Western Railroad, at La Crosse.
A COW slaughtered at La Crosse had
in her stomach one silver piece, two
| common wood screws, one l-lnch and
one ! j inches. respectively; six carpet
tacks, twenty-three shinglen nails OF dit
ferent lengths, two factory knitting
needles, 81 inches in length, very
| shary, and one of them barbed; one
| street railway spike, three inches long,
etc. One of the needles mentioned had
pierced one of the cows lungs, and a
tumor weighing nearly q pound had
| formed in consequence.
The annual meeting OF the Black
! River Improvement Company was
| held at La Crosse on the 18th, and
some changes made in the directors.
| The following were elected: President,
| ID. ID. Mcmillan; secretary and treas
urer, s. l.. Nevins; directors, ID. ID.
| Mcmillan, c. L. Coleman, John Paul,
d. Austin, n. B. Hollway, l.. Withle
| and Frank Pooler.
| FORTY delegates and fifteen minis
| tiers attended the convention OF Con-
gTSgdUlOHhl ChiICl SOCIc'ico az 4uehti
son.
AT Milwaukee on the night OF the
18th. Herman Hahka, a Finlander,
| wasfatally stabbed by Jonn Toyli, g.
fellow countryman. The murderer is
only % years old.
| THE Wisconsin Central Railway
| Company has been notified to show
cause why the lands they claim under
| filings should not be taken.